Mumbles Motor Boat & Fishing Club

Marina Berth Holders The marina have said that berth holders parking is as normal for us during the Air Show. Extra parking space is also being made in the compound, well done the marina staff! Vic Lilygreen

Oystercat trip 29th June, With better weather than expected..... No wind, we went straight to langland for the bream. Fishing wasn't the best for the last of the ebb and start of flood, only a couple of bream and a million hounds. Nigel had psycho fish of a good size 11lb which destroyed 5 traces and the loss of my new sunglasses grrrrr . So off to oxwich and not much there , best been my thornback , and so back to langland for last of flood where we did manage a good catch of bream to finish the day ! Cheers Mark

Off we go !

Oystercat 26th June, With babysitting suddenly postponed, I was hoping to get on board for Tuesday trip but boat was quite full. So with forecast deteriorating I went for a “cheeky trip” on the wed. Major surprise when reaching the swig to find sea conditions very good so set off to fish the flood at Langland. Not an exhilarating days fishing, but steady nods of rods all day. Small codling, pout, gurnard and bream, 5 for the pan and one plate size Dab. One Huss of 12lb who did not want her picture taken. Never seen so many small Huss come to the boat sea must have been thick with them. Some mackerel caught but still sparse. Till next time John E

Oystercat sat 22nd trip (morning) with a full boat and 4 new members we went for a short trip to see what was around. a bit of feathering to start and a dozen or so mackerel. then to anchor. 6 nice size bream and a few smaller came to the boat, Alex seemed to have the knack of letting them drop off before he could reach them . Saved him getting them off the hook I suppose. Quite a few smoothounds and a few Huss. Dogfish were there but not a major pest which was a welcome change. John E

1 undersize plaice, 1 undersize bream, 2 undersize bass, quite a few good dabs, quite a few growlers, LOADS of "lunatic fish" (hounds), some of the biggest I have ever seen. Managed to get some more crew training done, (but why do they insist on letting the anchor chain & rope run out through their hands despite my roaring)? Vic Lilygreen

Back to normal "Vikings" 12oz bream, mackerel, smoothounds, & dogfish, welcome back to the REAL word you lot. Looked like a great week with lots of species caught,

NORWAY 2019: Members have spent the last week on the club's 1st trip to Mefjord, Norway. Overall we had a successful trip with only 1 day where we couldn't get out on the boats due to weather but this was a nice day off in the middle to relax and enjoy the camp and it's surroundings. Many members had new P.Bs and lots of new species, accompanied by a good laugh and banter between the 3 boats. Mike Cooze had the best fish of the week with a halibut of 48lb Pete Jordan achieved a personal target by catching a monster scorpionfish. A big thank you to sportquest holidays for all the organisation, smooth transfers between the UK and Mefjord Brygge and going the extra mile. Also a big thank you to the team at Mefjord Brygge for making our stay an enjoyable one. Mark Thomas.

The trip has finally come to a end , everyone has had a great time , and some good fish caught !

Cat trip 10th June. looking to take advantage of a small gap in weather booked a trip for mon. not many members take up offer but enough for a trip. Had a few mackerel on way out. so decided to go Oxwich for tope . No more baitfish to be seen we anchored 1 hr before tide. The water from lighthouse down was full of Mayweed Bloom. we had a couple of runs with John and Phil losing fish at the boat but Howard "lucky "Hopkins managed to land 3 to 25lb. John

1st couple of days in Norway, cheers mark

Oystercat 27th May with yet another great Neap tide looking like it was "blown off" I thought I would give it a go if for no other reason than to show how bad it can be just past the SWIG and nice along the swansea foreshore. I was not proved wrong. Thought we were in for a good day with a thornback 3 minutes after dropping anchor.Went downhill from there ! Very few doggies three small huss some big scad baby tope and one small bream and bass. with the wind above 30mph we came back in at 12.oo to fish just off the strombus where Les had a few smoothie to 8lb. Very windy and was not going to be nice once tide turned so back on the 1.30 lock in. Plenty of fresh air and empty pegs but not a great catch

Oystercat 19th may trip with 3 empty places .conditions were good but a big tide running. langland first stop, a few bream, Scad, small whiting and a pollack. it was agreed that as bream are spawning they would be returned. off to oxwich for the shelter of the tide run. Loadsa smoothies to 11.5lb dabs a few plaice one thornback and plenty of dogs and small huss. Some boats had a few Mackerel but not us. reasonable day out dry and comfy all seemed to enjoy.John ps been asked to mention that sitting onto a hot cup of tea is not recommended !!!

Fairly slow start to today’s wrecking trip aboard the Oystercat but found a few fish in the end; we had pollack up to 8lb 8oz, a Ballan wrasse, coalfish and a pouting. Only saw 2 dolphins all day, one of which was dead and being eaten by gulls, very little bird life, no seals and just a few porpoise closer to home; everywhere seemed a little barren / devoid of life today! Dean Gifford

And we're off!!